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Can you help clear something up for me about the omnipotence contradiction? by longToMsilverin PhilosophyofScience

[–]AtheismFTW 0 points1 point ago*

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I think the question is fundamentally flawed.

The weight of an object is of no necessary significance to a being who can do anything. The question innately supposes that an omnipotent being must have some physical, corporeal body with muscle mass that would be required to perform the action of lifting an object.

I don't see why weight should be of any significance.

You may as well ask "Can God create a rock so purple that he cannot lift it" ... the color of a rock is just about as inconsequential to a human lifting it as the weight of an object to a being who has no muscle mass.

When you get down to it the question is really: "Can God do something he can't do?", and that's more like silly linguistic gotcha-ism than anything.

Anyway, trying to discuss the nature of God (if one does exist) is about as fruitful as a caveman using common sense and instinct to hypothesize the results of a double slit experiment. Even if we could use arm-chair logic to "reasonable" determine whether or not a supernatural God can exist, we'd still be forgetting that even the natural universe has shown itself to be pretty counter-intuitive at times.

Other ways of phrasing the question, to help demonstrate the linguistic absurdity:

  • Can God do something he can't do?
  • Can God remove his own omnipotence and still be omnipotent?
  • Can God create a resolvable paradox?

Samuel Adams unfairly scorned by beer snobs by Shoegaze99in beer

[–]AtheismFTW 78 points79 points ago

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Don't be such a meta snob.

I don't care IF protesters were violent towards the police, the police had NO EXCUSE to continue to fire upon protesters who were merely attempted to aid Scott Olsen. Video proof included. Arrest those cops. Now. by suntfrumosein politics

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Some animal evolved into the chicken. That pre-chicken animal laid an egg that hatched into the first actual chicken.

Of course line is relatively arbitrary, but no matter where you draw the line, the first chicken came from a chicken-egg which popped out of a pre-chicken's butt.

A friend of mine was helping a girl jump her car...she crossed the wires by Quacktastic69in pics

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I miss my wife :(

Reminder: Moderation while brewing by nzoin Homebrewing

[–]AtheismFTW 10 points11 points ago

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Memory Fail Pale Ale?

Renton Cops Caught Shredding Reports On Police Misconduct Revealed By Cartoonist by SovereignManin Bad_Cop_No_Donut

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The original cartoon videos are here: http://www.kirotv.com/news/28758502/detail.html

Creationism vs Evolution, Limerick Style by kg959in DebateAChristian

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Perhaps Horizontal gene transfer
and Interspecies sex can answer
a question so plain
wikipedia could explain
it even to a Biology 101 slacker

Creationism vs Evolution, Limerick Style by kg959in DebateAChristian

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If you look at your brethren's cancer
you may just soon find your answer
not every mutation
is cause for celebration
nor a "positive" evolutionary adapter

Moderators: Seeking input on temporary subreddit bans by bsimpsonin modnews

[–]AtheismFTW 11 points12 points ago

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"time out" lol

IAMA Person who does bikini/brazilian waxes (by request) by Cuntpuncher27in IAmA

[–]AtheismFTW 93 points94 points ago

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She has an actual bush.

Is resurrecting someone from being Cryogenically frozen plausible? by mrmadagascarin askscience

[–]AtheismFTW 5 points6 points ago

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Depends. I'm quite partial to tomatoes.

Anyone find this as rude as I do? by jeeluhhin pics

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Statistically, we're all living in computer simulations.

TIL Lauren Bush married Ralph Lauren's son and her name is now Lauren Lauren by [deleted]in todayilearned

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I also recommend Empty City, Sagan's Song, and Chords Of Your Chorus :)

Scumbag Bison by Draksis314in funny

[–]AtheismFTW 8 points9 points ago

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One can stand in his original territory the same way a droplet can find his place in the stream.

I am a 21y/o female, and have had 425 distinct beers and remember everything about each individual one of them. I have even kept a list, (see comments). AMA by Spreo_superbusin beer

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Almost missed the qualifier "mostly" when your first "American craft brew" was La Trappe. You may proceed.

BTW, how did you not manage to lose your same pen through that whole time?

italian kid loves led zeppelin by virrgilin videos

[–]AtheismFTW 8 points9 points ago

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Kill the baby

Alice Cooper

Here's a picture of Richard Feynman at a titty bar. by [deleted]in offbeat

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Please, call me Dick!

I don't know how to react to this. [.Gif] by Sammysomeonein woahdude

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I'm pretty sure I almost had a for real seizure watching that for a few seconds. If I get bored later I might watch it for a bit longer to see what happens.

work in progress... by BlankGiraffein pics

[–]AtheismFTW 8 points9 points ago

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NEXT TIME ON DRAGONBALL Z...

Printers or "The bane of my existence" by lonejeeperin sysadmin

[–]AtheismFTW 14 points15 points ago

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I'm not sure how the rest of this theatrical intro should go, but I do know the name of the movie has to be The Print Job.

You Can't Explain That! [gif] by agiantcoconutin woahdude

[–]AtheismFTW 2 points3 points ago

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yಠu can't explain that.

Cat Scan of a banana [gif] by iCabbagein woahdude

[–]AtheismFTW 9 points10 points ago

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I'd rather see a Banana scan of a cat.

lol jk but yeah if you think about it, we're living in a 3-D cat scan of the 4th dimension @_@

I just survived a horrific car crash. AMA. by AtheismFTWin IAmA

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no room. ate rosemary chicken wings and fries. she had soup. there's some nice lookin apple pie there for like 99 cents thoughl.... hints to wife

I just survived a horrific car crash. AMA. by AtheismFTWin IAmA

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yup, it's a 2006 focus. well, was.

I just survived a horrific car crash. AMA. by AtheismFTWin IAmA

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yeah we just ate. now we're trying to figure out if we're gonna finish tour (my wife is a musicain and we were on the 6th stop of the tour when this happened)

i have an old friend who lives about 2 hours away from here, he said he'd come get us but no word from him yet

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